Justice in the 1991 Pilibhit fake encounter case in which 10 Sikhs were gunned down by a team of Uttar Pradesh police has been finally delivered. All 47 policemen convicted in the case have been sentenced to life imprisonment by a Special CBI court.

The (Retd.) Supreme Court Justice Katju Commission holds Punjab Police guilty of excessive and unprovoked firing and lathi charge against peaceful congregation without any reason and without the statutory magisterial orders. The Commission has recommended for punishment for police officers responsible for unprovoked and unjustified firing and lathi charge at unarmed civilians. The report of Retd, Justice Katju Commission regarding Behbal Kalan, Punjab killings is released on 26th of March, 2016. The copy of Full Report is as under;

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has stayed the implementation of transfer orders of Enforcement Directorate (ED) Assistant Director Niranjan Singh who is probing synthetic drug racket case. He had also summoned Punjab Revenue Minister Bikram Singh Majithia on December 26 in the drug racket. The decision was taken on an application in ongoing Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by an advocate Navkiran Singh on behalf of an NGO Lawyers for Human Rights International yesterday. The next hearing of the case is on February 2.The Jalandhar-based Enforcement Directorate Assistant Director had also earlier interrogated former Punjab jails minister Sarwan Singh Phillaur and his son Damanvir Singh in connection with the drug racket.

Dilbagh Singh and Sunil Masih, both Indians who were lodged in Kot Lakhpat Jail Lahore in Pakistan were repatriated back to India with the help of NGO Lawyers For Human Rights International and a Pakistani human rights lawyer friend Zulfiqar Jehangir. The orgnisation has also filed a Public Interest Litigation in the Punjab and Haryana High Court at Chandigarh for securing the release of thease two Indians in which the High court already issued notices to the External Affairs Ministry of India etc.

LFHRI EFFORTS: EVE TEASING WILL BE NOW DEALT STERNLY IN PUNJAB, HARYANA & CHANDIGARH FROM NOW ON.

September 30, 2013 at 7:12pm

In a PIL filed by lawyers For Human Rights International the 1st division bench of Hon'ble Punjab & Haryana High Court has directed Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh to place before it on 6th Nov 2013, the action plan for implementing the suggestion formulated by all the 3 states and the counsel of the petitioner. Navkiran Singh General secretary of the organisation as well as counsel in the case was able to get this historical decision. The agreed suggestions are as under :-

In an urgent petition filed by Dharampal Singh of Haryana State through a renouned human rights lawyer Navkiran Singh, the Punjab and Haryana High Court has stayed the hanging of Dharampal Singh untill April,10. The Mercy petition of Dharampal Singh was rejected recently by the President of India. He was to be hanged on April, 15 as per the newspaper reports. He was shifted from Rohtak Jail to Ambala Jail in a government vehicle under tight security yesterday as there is no hanging facility in Rohtak Jail.

Lawyers For Human Rights International in a meeting held at Chandigarh condemned the incident of thrashing a victim of sexual harasshment and her father by Punjab Police at Tarn Taran, Punjab and passed resolution demanding strict action and registring of F.I.R. against the policemen involved in the incident under Indian Penal Code. In a shocking case of police brutality,policemen thrashed a victim and her father instead of helping them.

The Punjab and Haryana High Court issued notice to Punjab Govt., CBI, SSP Gurdaspur and others on a public Interest Litigation filed by Lawyers For Human Rights International (LFHRI) seeking CBI inquiry into incident of police firing at Gurdaspur in which a youth Jaspal Singh was killed and another youth Ranjit Singh was seriously injured.

Lawyers For Human Rights International has withdrawn today its petitions in the Supreme Court of India through which it had sought relief for Balwant Singh Rajoana, as the Home Ministry has already stayed the execution during the pendency of the appeals pending in the Supreme Court of India and the Mercy petitions filed by SGPC and DSGPC before the President of India. Another petition related to the same matter has been dismissed today by the Supreme Court of India. The petitions have been filed by the LFHRI through its District president Chandigarh, Tejinder Singh Sudan, Advocate on Monday as the convict Balwant Singh Rajoana has to be executed on 31st of March, 2012.

LFHRI held a workshop on "Human Rights & Law" at P.U on 28th March 2015,to train young Lawyers and Law Students in the field of human rights. The main Speakers were Colin Gonsalves Sr Adv, Navkiran Singh Adv, Rajwinder S Bains Adv, H.C Arora Adv,Dalit activist Jai Singh, Dr Swaranjit kaur and Hemant Goswami RTI Activist.

Three mentally ill members of a family were rescued by District Legal Services Authority (DLSA) of S.A.S. Nagar, Mohali, Punjab, India, from a house in Mohali where they locked themselves for the last about ten years. They were brought to Civil Hospital by the police, District Legal Services Authority (DLSA), Mohali and members of NGOs Lawyers For Human Rights International and Prabh Asra Trust of Kurali on 23.4.2014. The Additional District Judge-cum- Chairman Sh. P.P.Singh and Chief Judicial Magistrate-cum-Seretary, District Legal Services Authority (DLSA), Mohali, Sh. Tarantarn Singh Bindra were present at the spot when the house was checked. Three family members were found in a pathetic condition when the team reached their house. It was found that they were not come out of their house for the last about ten years. The forth member of the family who is about 72 years old age was used to come out of the house to fetch the food for the family from a nearby shop. They were living in complete isolation and not taken bath for the last many years. The two of them have a serious mental disorder and referred to Institute of mental Health in Amritsar by Dr. Harinder Singh, the Psychiatrist at civil hospital who checked the family.

TO DISPELL THE RUMOUR MONGERINGS, OUR ORG JOINTLY WITH OTHER HUMAN RIGHTS BODIES & POLITICAL PARTIES RELEASED THE FIGURES OF SIKH POLITICAL PRISONERS WHO ARE DEATINED THROUGH OUT INDIA. TODAY ON 10TH DECEMBER 2013, BEING WORLD HUMAN RIGHTS DAY, WE DEMAND GENERAL AMNESTY FOR ALL OF THEM AND ALSO DEMANDTHEIR REHABILITATION.

The rejection of the mercy petition of Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar by the Hon’ble President of India and recent dismissal of the petition by the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India has thrown many important issues open to the public domain.

The decision of the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India dated 22.3.2002, when one out of the Hon’ble three judges who upheld the death sentence of Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar, namely Justice M.B. Shah acquitted Bhullar of his offences was an serious error of law. Moreover the conviction being based on a confessional statement made by Bhullar while in police custody, which he had recanted later on in the court on the allegations of the same being outcome of coercion and torture, is also a matter of great criticism in the legal circles.

In a Public Interest Litigation filed filed by Lawyers For Human Rights International alleging that two Punjab residents (Indians) are languishing in a Pakistani jail even after completing their sentenses, the Punjab and Haryana high Court issued a notice to the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India and Punjab Government. The respondents have been directed to provide replies within a month.

Lawyers for Human Rights International has sent its suggestions to Hon'ble Retd. Justice J.S. Verma who is heading the three member committee constituted by Government of India to give recommendations on amending laws to provide speedier justice and enhanced punishment in sexual assualt cases. The committee was constituted after public protests erupted over Delhi gang rape case. The committee headed by former Chief Justice of India JS Verma sought comments from the public in general, particularly eminent jurists, legal professionals, NGOs, women's groups and civil society members on reviewing the existing laws in a bid to provide quicker justice and stringent punishment in cases of aggravated sexual assault, an official statement said.

The Lawyers For Human Rights International sent a representation to the Chief Minister of Punjab,India seeking identification of the unclaimed dead bodies which were cremated in whole of State of Punjab from 1984 to 1994 on the lines of NHRC recent judgment and seeking payment of compensation to the victim families who have till today not been able to perform the last rites of their near ones and have been killed / missing at the hands of Punjab police officials or para-military security forces in districts other than Amritsar, Tarn Taran and Majitha.

LFHRI has challenged in Supreme Court Of India,the order passed by High Court, denying stay in executing of Death Warrants of Balwant Singh Rajoana, during the pendency of proceedings in the SC,where in the judgment vide which death Sentence of Balwant singh has been upheld and conversion of life imprisonment of Jagtar Singh has been challenged by the CBI. The case will be listed tomorrow or day after tomorrow.